{"id":2402,"date":"2014-11-22T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T14:04:17","slug":"convincing-vmware-that-lun-presented-by-hardware-raid-is-based-on-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2014\/11\/convincing-vmware-that-lun-presented-by-hardware-raid-is-based-on-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"convincing vmware that lun presented by hardware raid is based on ssd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i have esxi 5.5 running on top of dell r620. since few months server has raid1 based on 2x intel s3500 800GB drives. but vmware [or maybe rather the raid controller &#8211; dell&#8217;s h710p] has seen it as a non-ssd drive:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/non-ssd.png\" alt=\"non-ssd\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve found a solution <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&#038;cmd=displayKC&#038;externalId=2013188\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtuallyghetto.com\/2011\/07\/how-to-trick-esxi-5-in-seeing-ssd.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>log in to the vmware server via ssh<\/li>\n<li>run <i>esxcli storage core device list<\/i> and find Devfs Path corresponding to the device UID as visible on the screenshot above\n<li>run <i>esxcli storage nmp satp rule add -s VMW_SATP_LOCAL -d mpx.vmhba32:CX:TX:LXX -o enable_ssd<\/i> where where mpx.vmhba32:CX:TX:LXX corresponds to the device identified in the earlier step<\/li>\n<li>reboot the vmware server, or at least stop all VMs using the ssd drive and run: <i>esxcli storage core claiming reclaim -d mpx.vmhba32:CX:TX:LXX<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>after a refresh the drive is seen as ssd:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ssd.png\" alt=\"ssd\" width=\"774\" height=\"23\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ssd.png 774w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ssd-300x8.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have esxi 5.5 running on top of dell r620. since few months server has raid1 based on 2x intel s3500 800GB drives. but vmware [or maybe rather the raid controller &#8211; dell&#8217;s h710p] has seen it as a non-ssd drive: i&#8217;ve found a solution here and here: log in to the vmware server via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,51],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-unimportant","tag-esxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}